While reviewing the Parts of Speech resources, I found these two sentences particularly informative:
“An adjective modifies a noun or pronoun by providing more information about its qualities or characteristics.”
“Interjections are words used to express strong emotion, often standing alone.”
These sentences helped clarify the function of adjectives and interjections in ways I hadn’t fully grasped before.
Here’s a list of parts of speech found in the first sentence:
Adjective: An (modifies "adjective")
Noun: adjective, noun, pronoun, information, qualities, characteristics
Verb: modifies, providing
Preposition: about, by, of
Pronoun: its
From the second sentence:
Interjection: Interjections (the term being defined)
Verb: are, used, express
Noun: words, emotion
Adverb: often
Preposition: to
These examples reminded me how interconnected the parts of speech are in shaping clear, precise sentences.
I'd love to see what sentences stood out to you all and what parts of speech you noticed!